Fishing Southwest Florida and the Everglades
Fly fishing for Tarpon, Snook, and Redfish in Southwest Florida and the Everglades
Chad Huff, Fly Fishing Guide
I grew up the son of a fishing guide in the Florida Keys.
I sight fished my first tarpon at age 6. My brother and I got our first boat i n 1978 at the age of 8 and we would explore the flats around Marathon. We got our first flats skiff when I was 1983 and used to take it across Florida Bay to Flamingo and Cape Sable by ourselves. I caught my first Bonefish on fly by myself in 1984. In 1984 we also started coming to Chokoloskee to explore the Everglades. I fell in love with that untouched wilderness. (Read More About Chad)
Fishing Charters:
I specialize in fly fishing but also offer spin/conventional fishing. Tarpon, Snook, Redfish are my primary targets but also catch triple tail, trout, and occasionally see large schools of permit. Fishing in the Everglades and 10,000 Islands. Full day charters, aboard Hell’s Bay Boatworks Guide 18
News & Press
Florida’s red tide takes a mounting toll. And it’s not just on the fish.
Miami Herald
by Jenny Stletovich, August 14, 2018
On a cloudless, windless day in Pine Island Sound usually perfect for fishing, Capt. Chad Huff sees something that breaks his heart and threatens his livelihood: an 80- to 100-pound tarpon, probably a dozen years old, scales glistening like armor forged from silver dollars, bobbing on the surface.
Its lifeless body is beginning to bloat. Its eyes, ten thousand times stronger than a human’s, have clouded over.
“Horrible,” mutters Huff, a second-generation fishing guide. “Eighty percent of what I get paid for is the pursuit of one of these on a fly rod.”
